Take Note

Complicated Halloween party scenarios, track meets, notebook use cases, doing a little better every day: it’s all here this week.

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

Clairefontaine

John Cheever stories

Daily Stoic

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Jeremy Strong on Fresh Air

Jeremy Strong on WTF

Victory Brewing Company

Keep Honking I Also Am A Goose Bumper Sticker

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Birds and Trees of North America Field Notes

Claire Fontaine Classic Spiral

Rhodia Sewn Spine Rhodiarama Notebooks

Spiral Decomposition Notebook

Ryan Slie joins us as co-host this week for a rousing round of waddya gots and a discussion of NEW TEETH by Simon Rich. 

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New Teeth by Simon Rich

Hold Your Breath on Hulu

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Ted and Adam dig into the mailbag, the email bag: reading a week of emails from 2014 to see what we can learn from ourselves. Old brands, office pools, and errant invitations.

Al Pacino’s essay in the New Yorker

Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to middle school and concert hall and to middle age. 

Help The Aged

2024 XOXO Field Notes

Demetrius Oliver's "Aerial"

Field Notes Glitch Edition

Field Notes Index Edition

The Third Man

Colson Whitehead's Weird Little List

How To Write A Mystery

Our notebooks are sandy and water-stained, beat up and full of notes from the summer as we look to the next season. 

Three Potato Four Notebook

Field Notes beer

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach

Lauren Collins of the New Yorker

An Editor’s Burial, a companion to the French Dispatch

Paul Schrader on imdb

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Endo Announces Extension Of U.S. Rights For Voltaren Gel

New Yorker Summer 2024 Fiction Issue

Adam’s got some game-changing comfort ideas; Field Notes has a beer out; titles of Tolkien; mystery book chit-chat; some podcast recommendations. 

Goshi wash cloth

Field Notes beer

Reckon True Stories

NYT 100 best of this century

Shell Game

New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue 2024

Fratelli Bonvini Milan

Check out the Scarabook

Edizioni Precarie

Beppe Giacobbe 

Riccardo Luci Florence

Irish moss for paper marbling

We talk writing and music this week alongside our typical super-charged banter. And the notebook of the week!

Fire Mike Miles

Louise Gluck

The Work of Art by Adam Moss

Tabula Rasa: Volume Four by John McPhee in the New Yorker

Story Club with George Saunders

Waxahatchee

Good Morning

Charley Crockett

DEHD

NYT Magazine: How Khruangbin’s Sound Became the New Mood Music